Morning Links: David Geffen’s Giving Edition

Entertainment mogul David Geffen will give a cool $150 million toward the construction of a Peter Zumthor–designed building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. That means that LACMA’s director, Michael Govan, has lined up $450 million of the $650 million he needs to break ground on the project. [Los Angeles Times]

Lincoln Center has canceled plans to spend $500 million on a total renovation of David Geffen Hall, and will instead seek more modest ways to improve the space. The building’s name donor, who had committed to giving $100 toward the project, will reportedly still follow through with that donation. [The New York Times]

For the uninitiated, here’s Geffen’s Instagram, which features appearances from Dasha Zhukova, Martin Short, and Oprah. [@davidgeffen/Instagram]

The Market

A 900-year-old Chinese porcelain bowl sold for about $38 million at a Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on Tuesday. [CNN Money]

Here’s a look at painter Howard Hodgkin’s personal collection, which will go to auction at Sotheby’s later this month. [The New York Times]

San Francisco–based collectors Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein discuss their holdings, which include a later Picabia painting and a Calder. A show of photographs they have donated to SFMOMA goes on view there next year. [The New York Times]

Artists

Artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer has an action-packed schedule right now that includes an upcoming show at Company gallery in New York, which, she said in an interview, “is going to feature 29 photographs that were made during the ’70s—pictures of lovers, motorcycle trips, landscapes, and film stills, among other things. Andrew Durbin, the gallery’s director, selected the works from thousands of black-and-white negatives. The process took months. He is very patient!” [Artforum]

Rosanne Cash calls on country musicians to stand up to the National Rifle Association. [The New York Times]

“The Nobel Prize in Chemistry . . . has been awarded to three scientists for their pioneering work developing new methods of visualizing biomolecules, such as the Zika virus.” [CNN]

And More

Artist and writer Greg Allen has created a new work called Untitled (Mnuchin Gallery), which was inspired by the activities of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, son of art dealer Robert Mnuchin. [Greg.org]